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DIGITAL COPYRIGHT Jessica Litman Prometheus Books 2001 ISBN 1-57392-889-5 www.digital-copyright.com The Internet has been hailed as the most revolutionary social development since the printing press. In many ways its astonishing growth has outstripped any historical analogy we can unearth. What has fueled much of that growth has been the explosion of new possibilities for connections--among ...

Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks The following is an edited transcript from a speech given at MIT in the Communications Form on Thursday, April 19, 2001 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm DAVID THORBURN, moderator: Our speaker today, Richard Stallman, is a legendary figure in the computing world, and my experience in trying to find a respondent to share the podium with him was ...

Presented by home legislative alerts LEGISLATIVE ALERT: SSSCA - Security Systems Standards and Certification Act There is a new bill on its way to congress that could have a drastic effect on copyright law and the technology we use every day--including open source software. The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, or SSSCA, was originated by Senator Fritz Hollings (Dem.-S.

Jewish Law and Copyright Rabbi Israel Schneider Jewish Law and Copyright Rabbi Israel Schneider In our highly advanced technological age, the duplication of original works of authorship has become almost effortless. While at one time, manuscripts or books had to be copied laboriously by hand, it is now possible within several minutes to produce high quality reproductions of entire works.

Near Matches Ignore Exact Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act (idea) by yerricde (23 hr) (print) 5 C!s Fri Sep 08 2000 at 02:33:24 Don't like the bias in this writeup I contributed to an alternative version of this writeup, written from a neutral point of view, available on Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act A tree may have stopped his heart, but ...

Articles Index NEW RULES FOR USING PUBLIC DOMAIN MATERIALS By Lloyd J. Jassin, Esq. Late last year, the President signed into law the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Under the new law -- which adds 20 years to most copyright terms -- no new works will enter the public domain until 2019. Enacted to ensure adequate protection for U.S. works abroad, the new act restricts access to works ...

Near Matches Ignore Exact DMCA and the politics of copy protection (idea) by yerricde (42 min) (print) 2 C!s Thu Feb 15 2001 at 20:57:23 Brought to you by Node Your Homework. This paper helped earn me a B! in VA309: Philosophy of Technology at Rose-Hulman and a C! here on Everything. The Politics of Copy Protection Technology by Damian Yerrick The Constitution of the United States of America ...